On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 at 11:10, Raphael Mankin <r...@mankin.org.uk> wrote: > > Attached is a MWE. > > I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were > ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing.
That's because you use \addlyrics. As mentioned in the doc, this is the same as \new Lyrics \lyricsto of the voice immediately preceding it. > Switching the order of the voices in << ... >> made no difference; it > always aligned to the shorter notes. So " << c4 \\ {a8 a8 } >>" or "<< > {a8 a8 } \\ c4 >>" yielded the same result. This is the main reason I recommend staying away from << { } \\ { } >>. As mentioned in the doc, this is equivalent to creating new voices called "1" and "2", thus different from the voice outside of this construct. Kind regards, Xavier